Culture

Geoffrey Dutton’s “marginal garden” in Scotland, is one of six case-study gardens in Overgrown. Image: Julian Raxworthy

Overgrown: a call for landscape architecture to return to the garden

by Julian Raxworthy—May 30, 2019

Craig Reucassel (L) and SueAnne Ware discuss the Toxic City.

The Foreground five: our most-read stories for March

by Foreground—April 18, 2019

Trees play a key role in the religious and cultural observances of peoples around the world. The tree is central to Easter as well as Christmas. Photo: Joshua Earle

Into the woods: an Easter meditation on trees

by Robert DiNapoli—April 15, 2019

Long Island garden at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, features planted indigenous vegetation of the Lower Yarra River. Photo: Molonglo

It’s okay to garden if you listen to the landscape

by Foreground—April 5, 2019

Venus and the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. Photo: NASA

Venus and the Pleiades: A reflection on women in landscape architecture

by Hilary Hamnett—March 8, 2019

Responsibility, transparency and environmental fragility are this month’s themes for our pick of web reads. Image: Tracey Clement’s 'Banquet' 2019 (detail)

Foreground reads: our pick from around the web in Feb

by Foreground—February 21, 2019

Not far from most cities is a water or seascape to watch sunsets on Valentine's Day. Photo: Will O

Landscapes of love

by Foreground—February 14, 2019

A "ghost city" – artist's impression of Ion Idriess' never realised proposal to flood and urbanise Australia's Lake Eyre.

The spectre of failure haunts Australia’s city-makers. Why do they keep getting it so wrong?

by Craig Allchin—January 17, 2019

Gender equality in landscape architecture is improving, but very slowly.

Landscape architecture’s gender gap revealed in new report

by Foreground—December 21, 2018

The Piano Mill, a musical instrument meets building.

The Piano Mill: In remote rural Australia, a living culture builds on the musical bones of the past

by Jo Russell-Clarke—December 7, 2018

Housing in suburbia, Brisbane. Image: Tatiana Gerus

Suburbanism: for most of us, the ’burbs are home; it’s time to celebrate them

by Leon van Schaik, Nigel Bertram—November 29, 2018

The tropics – fertile paradise or a place of brutality and decay? Image: Colin Czerwinski

Troppo troppo

by Suzanne Falkiner—November 2, 2018